I have a HFS+ formatted drive that just died on me. I have a back up but it's a about a week old. Unfortunately, I have a few files that I've changed and added since then that I would like to rescue before throwing it out.

If I were you, I'd stop doing anything that can potentially write data to your disk until you can make a byte-for-byte image of it. Then mess around with fsck / data recovery.
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Kevin ChenJan 16 '13 at 6:04

@tangrs And here is a guide on how to copy data byte-for-byte.
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Bart ArondsonJan 16 '13 at 10:59

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I borrowed a copy of this off my friend and ran it on a duplicate image. Unfortunately, the filesystem was so messed up, it couldn't recover much. Still, I got a few files that I needed. Thanks
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tangrsJan 18 '13 at 6:34

Any recovery software that doesn't come with a free trial, does not inspire buying confidence. I would personally recommend trying plop.at/en/hfsprescue.html if you are comfortable compiling it yourself.
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OrwellophileJul 21 at 7:38

I am new here and also to the mac world. Please try www.krollontrack.com who have mac recovery software. They are great in the pc world. Also, try a disk copier to make a bit copy of the old disk to a new one and try recovery from them.